and religious conflicts that evolved in the first decade of the nineteenth century were all connected. It seemed to be a cycle of clashes, the political would spark the economic and the economic would spark the social, and then back to political. French-Canadian nationalism was developed out of a series of defensive reflexes that were brought on by the numerous challenges that they faced in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Le Canadien, as a form of mass communication, not only addressed the concerns of politics but it also emphasized anything that differed from the English would show French distinctiveness. The clashes that were seen throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, were more then just ethnic or racial clashes, it was the beginning of a fight for survival by the Canadiens. It was not the actions of one particular person, or one particular clash that gave birth to French-Canadian nationalism. It was that the Canadiens began to see themselves as a collective whole, a shared consciousness had developed and from that French-Canadian nationalism emerged.French and English Clashes in the first decadeof the nineteenth century & the Birth ofFrench-Canadian Nationalism ...
